update on cockpit suddenly filled with steam

[Huw Powell]

No, your heater core is also shot.  The fresh air inlet is isolated from 
the engine compartment (or should be), so that steam can only come from 
one place - the heater core.

Obviously, yes, you also have other cooling system issues that need to 
be rectified.

On 8/16/2012 9:18 PM, Bill Pirkle wrote:
> Filled the reservoir with coolant and started to car (85 audi 5000)
>
> When the temp needle was  about vertical (about 3 minutes) steam began
> to come out of the heater vents.
>
> Shut off the engine and noticed that coolant was leaking on the drive
> way. Dripping pretty bad. It empted to reservoir in about 10 minutes
> even with the engine not running.
>
> Dripping was just  behind the steering but the radiator and reservoir is
> toward to front but drops can run all over the engine before they
> finally hit the driveway.
>
> So I think that there is a major leak in the cooling system that is a
> completely different problem than the leak in the heater core. This
> major leak causes the engine to overheat which produces the steam that
> comes out of the vents in the cockpit.
>
> Now to find it.
>
>
> Bill Pirkle   KE7JIA
> "When ideas fail, words come in handy"
>
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